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more advanced age, were admitted, if they requested it ; 

 but few grown persons seemed desirous of availing 

 themselves of this permission. As to the children, they 

 had no choice in the matter. Those who belonged to 

 the establishment were obliged to attend the school 

 regularly every day, morning and evening. The school- 

 books, paper, pens and ink, were furnished at the ex- 

 pense of the establishment. 



To distinguish those among the grown persons that 

 worked in the house who showed the greatest dexterity 

 and industry in the different manufactures in which 

 they were employed, the best workmen were separated 

 from the others, and formed distinct classes, and were 

 even assigned separate rooms and apartments. This 

 separation was productive of many advantages; for, 

 beside the spirit of emulation which it excited and kept 

 alive in every part of the establishment, it afforded an 

 opportunity of carrying on the different manufactures 

 in a very advantageous manner. The most dexterous 

 among the wool-spinners, for instance, were naturally 

 employed upon the finest wool, such as was used in the 

 fabrication of the finest and most valuable goods ; and it 

 was very necessary that these spinners should be sepa- 

 rated from the others who worked upon coarser mate- 

 rials ; otherwise, in the manipulations of the wool, as 

 particles of it are unavoidably dispersed about in all 

 directions when it is spun, the coarser particles thus 

 mixing with the fine would greatly injure the manufac- 

 ture. It was likewise necessary, for a similar reason, to 

 separate the spinners who were employed in spinning 

 wool of different colours. But as these and many 

 other like precautions are well known to all manufact- 

 urers, it is not necessary that I should insist upon them 



